HALIFAX, Canada, January 14 /PRNewswire/ -- ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc. (IVT), announced today that it had signed licensing agreements for Pfizer Animal Health to apply IVT's novel VacciMax(R) vaccine platform to the potential development of future, particular livestock vaccines.

Although terms of the agreements were not disclosed, IVT will receive upfront signing fees, milestone and royalty payments.

"We are excited that Pfizer plans to commercialize our technology," said Dr. Randal Chase, President and CEO of ImmunoVaccine Technologies. "We look forward to further discussions with Pfizer to integrate the VacciMax(R) platform into more applications in the fields of animal health care."

About the VacciMax(R) Platform

LONDON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Germany's Season Was Not So Jolly

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its final study of the online shopping activity of U.K., French and German consumers during the 2007 Christmas season. This study tracked the number of visits to online retail sites each week for the complete period between October 29 and December 23, using data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

Online Shopping Activity Peaks in First Two Weeks of December

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- National University of Singapore President is Widely Recognized Global Leader in Academic and Corporate Scientific Research

After an extensive international search among top academic research leaders, His Excellency Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Board of Trustees, today aannounced that Professor Choo Fong Shih will be the Founding President of KAUST, the new world-class, graduate-level scientific research university now under development in Saudi Arabia. He is expected to assume his duties on December 1, 2008.

SAN JOSE, California, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- In its Just-Released Malicious Page of the Month Report, Finjan Explores the "random js toolkit,"the Latest Example in the Trend Among Cybercriminals to Undermine 'Trusted' Web Sites

NEW YORK, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Broadcasts are being viewed worldwide by a growing audience of Kenyan expatriates and Kenya-watchers

Africast Global Media Inc., the world's leading broadcaster of African television over broadband Internet, is seeing a big surge in its viewership by Kenyans around the world and others who are keenly interested in following political developments in Kenya.

Africast (www.africast.tv) streams real-time and archived programming from KTN, Kenya's premier TV network, to Kenyans in the Diaspora, for viewing online on computers and via IPTV direct to television sets.

Cameras and sensors that will look for the presence of water on the moon have completed validation tests and been shipped to the manufacturer of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

The science instruments for the satellite, which is known as LCROSS, departed NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field Calif., for the Northrop Grumman Corporation's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif. to be integrated with the spacecraft. A video file is available on NASA Television. LCROSS is scheduled to launch with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., by the end of 2008.

BEAVERTON, Oregon, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Offerings to be Exhibited for the First Time in Europe at ISE Show

Planar Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLNR), a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, today announced availability of the Clarity RP and RX rear-projection displays designed to deliver a superior level of visual performance for demanding control room environments, such as government/military, broadcast, utility and transportation. Planar's RX and award-winning RP control room displays, announced at InfoComm in June, demonstrate the company's continued commitment to providing leading-edge display solutions for complex applications.

SHEFFIELD, England, January 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Local energy enabler Disenco Energy plc (TSX:DIS) today announces the appointment of Britain's Malvern Boilers Limited as sub-contractor to produce initial volumes of the condensing boiler element and final assembly of its unique home energy producing appliance, HomePowerPlant.

The appointment follows that of Autocraft Industries UK last week as engine manufacturer for the appliance. Engines from Autocraft will be incorporated into the appliance at Malvern Boilers facilities utilising the latest lean manufacturing techniques, enabling Disenco to meet initial demand for its disruptive product.

HOUSTON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Expert Faculty to Present Updates on the Latest Neuroscience Research and Clinical Treatments

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, renowned institutions from Houston's Texas Medical Center, announced the first Neuroscience Frontiers Conference, which will take place at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on January 21, 2008.

Who needs a computer? Two theoretical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute grabbed a piece of paper and described the motion of interstellar shock waves — violent events associated with the birth of stars and planets.

The mathematical solution developed by Wayne Roberge, lead author and professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy at Rensselaer and his colleague, adjunct professor Glenn Ciolek, reveals the force and movement of shock waves in plasma, the neutral and charged matter that makes up the dilute “air” of space. Unlike many previous studies of its kind, the researchers focused specifically on shock waves in plasma, which move matter in very different ways than the uncharged air on Earth.